I'm just getting to the point where I don't really care anymore. There are too many people, nobody gets any development time, and the over-arching story has basically stalled out. I mean, who can even keep track off all these people without a rolodex on hand?
LI's - Jessy, Tracey, Juanita, Oxana, Larisa, Rachael, Maria, Nikki, Katy, Kat, Rin, Willow, Angel, Chloe, Leelee, Candi, Angelica, Sadie, Hanako?
Future LI's? - Twila, Ashley, Kira, Tori, Emily, Della, Sarah, Hailee?
Casual Side Pieces - Brooke, Angie, Simone, Charli, Nora?
I don't even remember half of the names above. I just keep really meticulous saves (47 pages worth) and I was able to go back to skim through all the faces I saw, and it allowed me to compile the above list; and there's no guarantee I didn't miss a few.
The three girls who get the most regular content it seems are Jessy, her mother Tracey, and Rachael. Many of the other names on here have only one scene with them and were never touched on again, and some never even got a scene (e.g. Tori grabbed Ryker's dick in the hospital, and Emily helped him piss in a bottle). When was the last time anyone cared about Juanita or her daughter Maria? They were introduced, sexed, and effectively left to rot.
Ryker's 'core' group of motorcycle club and strip club ladies is well over a dozen, and there's no reason to care about most of them. This isn't just complaining about how the number of LI's has reached immersion breaking levels of absurdity, but how spreading the cast so thin allows for little to no character development. How much drama is left in the tank after you fuck Kat and her mom? How long are they gonna be shelved in favor of the next one-off 'project' girl, who also gets fucked and then never gets a follow up in favor of the next girl who needs saving? There is just little to no investment in these characters, so much so that even referring to most of them as 'characters' I feel is being overly generous.
It's a cast wide as a lake, but deep as a puddle.
I just wish there was a much tighter focus on a smaller cast, that shit actually happened, and that the audience could be made to care about it and the characters involved. I'm just getting tired of this 'flavor of the month' constantly rotating cast. I mean really, considering how much of a man-whore Ryker already is, did the addition of Leelee add anything meaningful in terms of plot, character development, or narrative progression? I don't think so.
(This isn't a dig at her design, I happen to like the petite ladies. Just, what does she add that couldn't have been done already with Jessy, Katy, Angel, Willow, Twila, Nikki, Hanako, etc.?)